Two Minute Papers: Estimating Matrix Rank With Neural Networks | Two Minute Papers #94

This tongue in cheek work is about identifying matrix ranks from images, plugging in a convolutional neural network where it is absolutely inaproppriate to use.

The paper “Visually Identifying Rank” is available here:
http://www.oneweirdkerneltrick.com/rank.pdf

David Fouhey’s website is available here:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dfouhey/

The machine learning calculator is available here:
http://armlessjohn404.github.io/calcuMLator/

The paper “Separable Subsurface Scattering” is available here:

Separable Subsurface Scattering – Computer Graphics Forum 2015 (presented at EGSR 2015) – J. Jimenez, K. Zsolnai, A. Jarabo, C. Freude, T. Auzinger, X-C. Wu, J. von der Pahlen, M. Wimmer and D. Gutierrez

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